Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 102

Article 20(2) says no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once, which is the protection against double jeopardy.

Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, who was Chief Justice of India from 1968 to 1970, officiated as President of India from 20 July to 24 August 1969, in the gap between the death of President Zakir Husain and the election of V. V. Giri.

The Election Commission of India began issuing Electors Photo Identity Cards in 1993 to stop impersonation and bogus voting at polling booths.

The National Investigation Agency Act was passed in the weeks following the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which had exposed the absence of a central agency able to take over a terror case on its own, since police and public order are State subjects.

This statement is wrong: the Benami law is enforced by the Income Tax Department, not the ED. The Directorate of Enforcement, set up in 1956, is a specialised financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, with its headquarters in New Delhi.

The Portuguese Civil Code of 1867 was extended to Goa and continued in force after its liberation in 1961, so Goans of every religion are governed by largely the same rules on marriage, divorce and succession, with only a few community-specific usages surviving.

According to the Supreme Court of India, Justice Surya Kant was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 24 May 2019 and was sworn in as the fifty-third Chief Justice of India on 24 November 2025, with retirement due on 9 February 2027.

Article 105(3) authorises Parliament to define its privileges by law, but Parliament has never passed such a law, so the privileges remain uncodified and are drawn from the Constitution, the rules of the Houses, their precedents and the practice followed before the Forty-fourth Amendment.

A Constitution Bench held that the right to die with dignity is part of the right to life under Article 21, and that an adult of sound mind may draw up an advance directive, popularly called a living will, refusing life support if he later becomes terminally ill or goes…

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam were all brought into force together on 1 July 2024 by notifications of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

In that case a 1947 motor vehicles law of Central Provinces and Berar had become unenforceable because it clashed with the freedom of trade under Article 19(1)(g).

The Rule of Law means that power is limited by law, everyone is equal before the law, and individual liberties are protected.

All three statements are correct. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 lets any two Indians marry by civil registration whatever their religion, without either partner having to convert, so it is the law that covers inter-religious marriages.

The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

Article 246 read with the Seventh Schedule gives Parliament and the State Legislatures separate fields of law making, but subjects overlap in practice, so a court must find the true nature and character of the law, its pith and substance, and ignore incidental encroachment on the other list.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Amendment Act of 2003, provides that the total number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers of a State shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, and that the number shall…

The doctrine means that a legislature cannot do by an indirect route what the Constitution forbids it to do directly; if it has no competence over a subject, no clever drafting can give it that competence.

The petitioner had settled his tax liability under a provision later found to violate Article 14, and it was argued that by agreeing to the settlement he had waived his right to equality.

That clause says that no law made by Parliament shall be deemed invalid on the ground that it would have extra-territorial operation, and the courts have built on it the rule that a State law too may apply to an object or person outside the State if there is a…

The Bengal Money Lenders Act of 1940 limited the interest and the amount recoverable by money lenders, a provincial subject, but it also affected promissory notes, which belonged to the central list.